“In Islam, celibacy is considered unhealthy and unnatural” (Wilson 58). This is hard for me to understand because why does a woman have to have sex with her husband if she doesn't want to? I feel there is a contradiction in this belief because Islam talks about how women are respected and their bodies are reserved, symbolic in a woman's veil, however, it is almost as if they have no choice when it comes to having intercourse with their husbands. This goes against the feminist beliefs I am used to that a woman has control over her body and can choose when to have sex and cannot be forced by her husband. In the same vein, does this mean that martial rape is not a “thing” in this culture? To understand this concept using the Shepard Principle I would have to bracket my feminist and Christian beliefs and understand that sex is only legitimate in a marriage and that it is a sin if a man or woman has sex outside of it. Looking at it from a Muslim perspective, the Quran states that everything Allah has created has a purpose and that the biological part of a woman's body is to reproduce. Islam recognizes the natural sexual instincts and desire of human beings and this should not be the case